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Despite budget surplus, Texas Legislature makes little money available for prison air conditioning

Stifling heat has killed inmates and exacerbated employee turnover in Texas prisons. But funding for air conditioning was whittled down in the draft budget released Thursday.

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Pictured is the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s William G. McConnell Unit in Beeville.
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